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Portmanteau ship names in Gundam Wing fandom: a shitpost

(written in response to @kirinjaegeste ’s posts)

So here’s the thing.  While Gundam Wing fandom’s two-digit numerical ship system has a long history, I actually prefer either portmanteau ship names or three-digit ship designation (ex: 1x2x1).  This isn’t because I don’t like the two-digit system or because I'm trying to make a statement about my gay ships not having tops or bottoms.  It’s just for practical purposes.  While the two-digit system works fine if you’re looking at a site with ONLY Gundam Wing on it, a lot of sites (Tumblr included) host more than one fandom.  There are other fandoms I’ve been in that used two numbers with an x between to indicate Season/Series # x Episode #.  And there are several other fandoms using numbers for their ships, too...let me tell you, I did not know there were people who shipped Engines 3 and 4 from Thomas and Friends but I now have a fondness for Gordon x Henry.  With these two factors combined, it makes it hard to find things with just the two-digit numerical ships.  When I first went looking for ship stuff for Gundam Wing I used the Tumblr search bar and the two-digit ships and ended up with almost entirely irrelevant results.  I was not happy.

When I first posted about GW back in 2017 I used the ship name Troquat for 3x4x3 because I KNOW I saw トロカト on a doujin cover at some point and I assumed it would be acceptable to use that in the English-speaking fandom.  It was distinctive and easy to remember, and I stand by that name even if at least one other person laughed at me and said it looked like I came from a darker timeline.  That hurt, by the way.  :(  I settled for using three digits to indicate a ship because no one makes fun of it and it still gets the point across to my satisfaction.  I like three-digit and will probably continue to use it.  But portmanteaux are still an option that’s been mostly untapped in English-speaking GW fandom.

So, for your viewing pain pleasure, here are my proposed portmanteau ship names from a darker timeline (most popular ships are in bold; upper case on the second half of the portmanteau optional):

1 Heeduo.  Heelena or Heerelena (I think I’ve actually seen Heeriri used in English-speaking fandom, which is accurate to doujin ヒイリリ, but I hesitate to use that because Relena’s name in English-speaking fandom isn’t rendered as Ririna).  Fortunately, the two most-used ships for Heero make some decent portmanteaux.  There’s also HeeTro, HeeQuat, HeeWu/Heefei (katakana for that reads a bit like ‘Beefy’ 🥩 in Japanese actually...).  HeeZechs (we could also shorten that to Hechs (lol), or we could flip it around to get ZechsHee, which sounds very Zexy indeed).  HeeTreize/Heatrays ♨️ or maybe Heerenada?  HeeDoro/Heerothy?  Lot of possibilities here.  But I am personally offended that there is no character available to form the ship Hee-Man. 💪

2 Hilduo works well as a portmanteau because one has a ‘d’ at the end of their name and the other has a ‘d’ at the beginning, so they blend nicely.  It seems Wufei is quite popular with Duo after Heero and Hilde...  Wuduo?  That one sounds like I’m trying to say ‘wood’ in Japanese a la Cardcaptor Sakura.  Could go as Wuo, which sounds like ‘whoa’ so that’s neat.  Or my personal favorite Duofei, which I would definitely refer to as ‘Duffles’ for the hell of it.  How about Maxwufei?  Sounds like we get a lot of Wufei there.  As for Solo, I guess it’s either DuSolo or SolDuo.  There’s also DuQuat and DuTrowa/TroDuo.  Putting the ‘Du’ first makes everyone Duo is shipped with seem very French-ly masculine.  :3

3 My beloved Troquat (troquât means ‘swapped/traded’ in French, which is great because it basically implies they’re vers right there in the name).  Quatre and Trowa have a shared ‘tr’ at the end of one name and the beginning of the other, so they form the absolutely perfect portmanteau of Quattro...unfortunately it’s so perfect that it’s an actual common irl word, so you’ll come up with a lot of irrelevant results in Italian or some Audi adverts if you use it.  Could go with Quatrowa, but now your Audi adverts will be in Polish.  So Troquat works best, I think.  Other ships for Trowa might be Trofei (would jokingly refer to that as ‘Truffles,’ which I can enjoy all day just like silly ship names involving Wufei).  Maybe TroMiddie (this reminds me of Voldemort’s Muggle name.  Tomriddle, Tromiddie.  It also sounds like a form of dramedy that is particularly devastating: trauma+comedy).  UnTro/Trowune?  Maybe TroTro or Tro² if you’re shipping OG Trowa Barton with the teenager who stole his identity?  Who else could Trowa even be shipped with idk.

4 We already covered most of the popular ships for Quatre, but we’ve still got Dorothy, which would be QuaDoro/Quatrothy.  There’s the far more interesting Quadoroth, which sounds like the name of an evil wizard but from a different author.  Quatalonia works well as a portmanteau, but Dorothy isn’t often referred to by her family name.  For Relena we could do Quatrelena, which is a solid portmanteau with their whole names joined at the common ‘re’.  There’s Wufei, too, but I don’t know if Quatfei sounds better than WuQuat.  If you’re into father figure kink there could be some Quatrashid or Quatshid (which reminds me of Cait Sith)... and there is also the best ship, Quatrock!  It’s Quatre and his dear Sandrock.  🤖😽

5 WuMei and Wufeize/WuTreize and WuSally (Wully!  WOOLLY!! 🐑  I love Wufei ship names!) are pretty much all I’ve got left for Wufei pairings.  But can you imagine being the poor Wufei-and-Une-shipping bastard who has to say their ship name is Wune or Uwu?

6 Zechs and Noin don’t have a good portmanteau, and with their numerical designations being 6 and 9 I don’t think anyone would want to give it up anyway.  This one isn’t too bad for practical purposes; 6 and 9 aren’t nearly as common in fandoms as smaller numbers.

9  Salnoin.  It’s fine.  Perfectly serviceable.  Could be worse.  Reminds me of salmon.  🦈 (Yes I know that’s a shark, lay off.)  We could make that one Nally or Nolly instead I think.

13 Treizechs.  They blend together nicely because they share the ‘ze’.  Treizune is neat and comes with the added bonus of looking like someone trying to write ‘treason’ in a way that will get past AI censors.  All of his common ships are now covered, but I’ll throw in Quatreize for free since there’s some interesting compare/contrast between the two characters as leaders that could be explored.

I think I covered all the ships likely to feature Relena and Dorothy except the most important: ReleDor.  Which sounds like a place name from Tolkien verse.  Roaming over the bounteous hills and mysterious valleys of Reledor.  Shit yea.  Guess it could also work as Dorelena, but it’s not as cool imo.

My final entry here is for the excellent rarepair Rylvia, aka RelenaxSylvia Noventa, which I started shipping while working on a secret project that never saw the light of day.  I would have gone with the very elegant Sylena/Selena, but it’s so elegant that it’s an actual popular irl name and I’d never be able to sort for content for my ship that way.

If you sat through all that, merci beaucoup!  I wasted hours of my life typing this abomination out and I’m glad to share.

#gundam wing #mobile suit gundam wing #new mobile report gundam wing #gw shitpost #1x2 #1x2x1 #2x5 #2x5x2 #3x4 #3x4x3 #...do I really have to tag ALL the ships? #ship names #gw ship names #portmanteau

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HEELENA MY BELOVED

[shakespearenews]

I saw her for the first time from my student’s perch in the balcony of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. It was a Saturday matinee in August 1959. She was unknown to most of the audience. Her acting partner, Dame Edith Evans, was not. The play was Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, which was almost as little known at the time as the young actress playing Helena. The production was by Sir Tyrone Guthrie, and it was bold and brilliant. It returned the play to its rightful place in the canon, made a star of Zoe Caldwell, and proved once and for all that no one would ever blow Dame Edith off the stage. Indeed, their scenes together were master classes in one generation graciously showing the next how it’s done while the other rose to the occasion and then some. There is no animal like a theatre animal, and Zoe was a colt that afternoon. There was no stopping her.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #zoe caldwell #terrence mcnally #alls well #alls well that ends well #all's well that ends well #heelena #tyrone guthrie #deith evans #stratford #stratford upon avon #rsc #royal shakespeare company #american theatre #american theatre magazine #theater #theatre

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Do you know any european website to buy cheap leotards ?

I found these websites, I never bought anything from any of them so I can't tell you if they're cheap or if they make good leotards or if they all sell internationally, but you can have a look 

www.christian-moreau.com/site/index/index.php

http://www.milano-pro-sport.com/ 

http://www.milanoleotards.co.uk/

Does anyone know other websites? If you do answer here or send a message to heelena :)

#heelena #ask

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“Men flirt better with their homies than they do with girls”: Gundam Wing Edition

-01-

HEERO: You stand out.

DUO: Yeah I know, thank you! 😀

HEERO: *sees Relena*  I’m going to kill you.

DUO: Whoa there, which one of us is your canonical love interest again?  ‘Cause I feel like you’re doing this wrong--

RELENA: I’m right here so come on over and kill me! 💕

DUO:  I stand corrected but wtf

-02-

DUO: Hey Tro, lookin’ sexy today, you been workin’ out? 😉

TROWA: 🙄

DUO: *sees Hilde* *walks into a doorframe, tries to recover and promptly trips face first into a trash can*

HILDE: ...Is he okay?

TROWA:  Yeah, that’s just where he lives.

-03-04-

TROWA: *does death-defying feats of acrobatics and rides around on a lion’s back, making all the ladies in the audience swoon*

TROWA: *sees Quatre* *bristles like an angry cat because he’s thirsty af and doesn’t know what to do about it*  I CAN HANDLE THIS MYSELF GO AWAY

QUATRE: I can handle myself too, but consider this: what if we helped each other? 🥰

TROWA: ...How did that work?*

*It’s because Quatre isn’t a girl, obviously.  Also he can read your mind heart

-05-

WUFEI: I can beat you in a fight.

MEILAN: Prove it, nerd.

WUFEI: *proves it*

MEILAN: Okay but you’re still a nerd

#gundam wing #inspired by #incorrectgundamwingquotes #heero yuy #duo maxwell #trowa barton #quatre raberba winner #chang wufei #unsure which ships to tag because I can't tell if they're joking or not #1xR #heelena #2xH #hilduo #3x4x3 #troquat #5xM #wumei #gundam wing dialogue that never happened